Coventry in 1981 was a tinderbox of a city primed to explode. Youth unemployment was skyrocketing as factories shut. The...
1981 riots
Shocking news this evening with the death of Terry Hall, lead singer in The Specials, at just 63. A great...
The late 1970s saw some shocking racist attacks in east London. But it also witnessed the beginning of a fightback...
The Marxist Militant Tendency wielded huge influence in the Labour Party on Merseyside in the 1980s. It operated within the...
Who was going to control the Merseyside police? The police themselves or the civilian local authority? That was a big...
To what extent did poor relations between the community in Toxteth and the police on Merseyside lead to the summer...
I'm going back in time to 1981 - a year when the first-term Thatcher government was looking at disaster in...
In these blog posts I'm getting into my time machine and zooming back to 1981. That was the year I...
In these blog posts, I'm casting my mind back to my first year at university in Liverpool. I arrived in...
I went to university in Liverpool in 1981. It was just after the summer of riots that had swept through...